Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Watching Vito Russo's* "Celluloid Closet" on TV. Images of homosexuals in films, mostly prior to Stonewall. Images of desperation and degeneracy. All that was available to me for most of my younger years.

Quentin Crisp is featured. Quentin Crisp, the archetypal queen.

He mused once on the man of his dreams, his fantasy lover, the Great Dark Man. His words embody the deadend of self-hating homosexuality. I wish I could say it was only from a bygone era.

If the Great Dark Man met me,he would not love me.If he did love me,he could not be my Great Dark Man.

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*I got to meet Vito several times in the last year or two before he died in 1990. He was a gay celebrity and I was no one in particular (though my partner then was kind of a somebody) and he was unfailingly friendly to me, going out of his way to say hello and smile and chat me up. A sweet man.

Oscar Wilde, who converted to Catholicism on his deathbed, apparently had a good opinion of the old Church of Rome prior to his difficult demise. He once opined that "the Roman Church is made for saints and for sinners...for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do."

Saturday, August 08, 2009

A treat. Archetypal American Guy Mike Rowe does an episode of Dirty Jobs where he has to swim with reef sharks. But before he gets into the wet suit and armor, he lolls around on the boat in nothing but his trunks for quite a while.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

Toward Our Future

What the sons of Europa need is a new religion: one that is as tribal, portable and survivalist as Judaism, as masculine, terrestrial and tough as Islam and as intellectually and aesthetically creative as Christianity...with a dose of the unflinching realism of the ancestral ways of the Greeks and Romans, Germans and Celts and Slavs..And for the larger Indo-European frame, something of the Indian capacity to combine an ultimate and philosophical realization of The One with a robustly mytho-poetic religion on-the-ground. Oh, and some of the psychological acumen of Buddhism.

Je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo

In A Nutshell

Liberalism's Basic Flaw

Liberals believe that the chief role of the State is to force everyone to be equal, (ie, take vengeance on the successful). So when they are confronted with any group that they deem less well off than themselves, they are morally disarmed, completely and utterly. Any group that can achieve Victim Status is on their way to power and the (White) liberal's onlyjob is to give them what they want, no matter how much that damages him. And nothing may ever be expected, much less demanded, of them in return. It's a recipe for suicide: no other outcome is possible.

Demography as Destiny

"...then the end of the Roman republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing." Theodore Roosevelt, 1911

Multiculti Suicide

"Modern liberal societies in Europe and North America* celebrate their own pluralism and multiculturalism, arguing in effect that their identity is to have no identity."

Francis Fukuyama

Identity & Migration (2007)

*(White societies, that is.)

Equality's Dark Side (Oops, is that raciss?)

"“The sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced ... to a single principle.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835